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Grafana Campfire - What's New in Table & Text Panel - (Grafana Community Call - Oct 2026)

Join us for a Grafana Campfire on the New Text and Table panels. See how the redesigned Text editor lets you write and preview side by side, and how Handlebars templates, value mappings, thresholds and Mermaid diagrams turn your query results into rich, data-driven content. Then we’ll look at Table’s new ad hoc interactions (hide, filter and group, right in the table) and a first look at how Table works with Grafana Assistant.

Microsoft Has a Bigger Problem Than Anyone Realizes

Microsoft just released over 1,400 security patches, including three zero-day vulnerabilities, one of which is already being exploited. But is this a sign of better security or a much bigger problem? In this ShipTalk discussion, we break down Microsoft's massive Patch Tuesday release, the challenges of managing thousands of vulnerabilities across enterprise environments, and whether AI is helping Microsoft find problems too late in the software development process.

The October 20, 2026 Google Cloud europe-west2 Outage

Multiple Google Cloud services in europe-west2 (London) experienced service disruptions, elevated error rates, API timeouts and processing latency on October 20, 2026, according to Google's incident page. Google's preliminary incident report records the start at 23:00 US/Pacific on October 19, 2026 (06:00 UTC on October 20) and the end at 05:10 US/Pacific on October 20 (12:10 UTC) - 6 hours 10 minutes.

How a Suburban Injury Team Gives Crash Victims Focused Attention

Texas's suburban communities are closely connected by busy roads, growing neighborhoods, and daily commutes that keep people moving between work, home, and family responsibilities. When a crash interrupts that routine, victims may suddenly have to manage physical recovery while dealing with transportation problems, financial pressure, and uncertainty about what comes next. The experience can feel especially overwhelming when several parts of a person's life are affected at once, making focused attention important rather than a one-size-fits-all approach.

5 Questions to Ask Before the Next Cloud Outage

On October 20, a power failure in one of Google Cloud’s three London zones disrupted Revolut, Lloyds, HSBC and others for hours. One zone failed, errors spread region-wide, and Google warned customers they might not be able to create new workloads to fail over to. Most teams find out how resilient they are during an outage, not before one. These five questions let you find out first.

Create Custom Visualizations | Introducing Grafana Pages | New from Grafana AI

Grafana Pages is now in public preview in Grafana Cloud. Tell Assistant what you want it to see , and Pages builds it: a custom visualization, an app, a slide deck, or even a game. Pages are for the moments a dashboard can’t cover, like walking leadership through a launch, starting your day with a view of the services you own, or turning an incident into a story everyone can follow.

Before you build your own internal platform, run these numbers

"We'll just build it ourselves" is usually said with confidence and a rough headcount estimate. Six months later, the team that was supposed to spend two sprints on it is still maintaining it a year in, and the platform that was meant to save engineering time has become one of the things engineering time goes to. Build isn't automatically the wrong call. Sometimes it's the right one.

A walkthrough of a root cause analysis with ilert AI SRE

It's 3am and a complaint has made its way to you: customers can't see product reviews. Nothing has crashed, and no alert points anywhere useful. Somewhere in your stack one service is failing, and the one showing the error is probably not it. Before you can fix anything you have to find it, and that search is most of your night. Now imagine you open the laptop, type one sentence and go grab a coffee. By the time you’re back, the root cause is ready, evidence attached. Your job is to check it.

AI Can Write Infinite Code. But Can We Ship It Safely?

AI is making code generation faster than ever. But writing code is only half the battle. Neil Watkins from Burns & McDonnell explains why the next big challenge in AI-driven software development isn't generating more code. It's making sure that code can be tested, secured, and deployed safely. As AI accelerates development, businesses need to rethink how they manage risk and ship software with confidence.